People Doing Strange Things With Electricity 3, Dorkbot

This is the 3rd gallery show for Dorkbot Seattle, this time at 911 Media Arts. The rotating black/green device is mine, "Faradic Revolution." (The final version was adjusted differently.)

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• dorkbot
• seattle
• amasci
• art
• kinetic
• sculpture
• sculpting
• beaty
• faradic
• revolution

[MrZulQ]

Hey Wbeaty

Make Combustable lemons so i can burn someones house down :D

[wbeaty]

@MrZulQ lemons are already combustible.

Take a piece of lemon peel and bend it. Look closely in bright light. See that little spray of juice that comes out of the surface? When you bend it, little pockets of fluid get popped. But it's not juice. It's flammable lemon oil. If you light a candle or a lighter, then send the oil spray into the flame, it makes a little burst of fire.

Oranges do the same. (And I bet that dried lemon peels burn pretty good!)

[Punniabi]

I wish you were my science teacher :(

[DavidPlim]

then why the fuck did you watch it. there is a back button dumbass.

[NoobTamer]

I am cave johnson.

[MrZulQ]

@wbeaty coooool!! TY!

[johntheawsomeful]

That felt like some confusing dream

[00011theman]

what did I just watch?

[Miscarcandi]

48 people never passed physics. :(

[wbeaty]

> talking about

There might be a shock hazard for high voltage, line powered. But these are LOW voltage. BATTERY powered. Probably trying to get a better grip so I won't drop the fragile, cast-sugar insect.

[AkrionXxarr]

He was talking about how it seems like you hesitate to touch the object on the pillow before you pick it up, wondering if there was a risk of getting shocked. (I assume, anyway)

To me it just looks like the reaction of someone trying to grab something while looking through their camera. :)